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Popcorn popping on the apricot tree.
Spring has brought me such a nice surprise,
Popcorn popping right before my eyes.
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15 responses to “Spring has Sprung”
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Lovely…wish I could have some of those apricots! Love them. Our 30 ft. tree got a desease & we lost it…really miss it! 😉
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Snowing here in Calgary…..
Now…. what apricot trees have to do with David Packard????????
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csharp: Good question. Apricot orchards like this used to be everywhere before the silicon came to Silicon Valley. These particular ones surround David Packard’s home.
I had lunch with Bill and Dave on my first day of work at HP. Gestures like that leave a lasting impression.
Today, the Packard Estate maintains this organic time capsule.
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Do they do anything neat with the harvest? A colleague of my mother owns one of the last chunks of vinyard in Orange County, and she reports the harvest is done by all the local BigWigs and their trophy wives.
I, for one, would love to be on the invite list for the HP Apricot Canning Festival.
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I sit about 30ft from another HP time capsule, Bill’s & Dave’s vintage offices here in HP Labs. I walk any new visitors by them for a visit, it’s an important part of being here. Bill & Dave stories are a great part of the HP culture and I’m glad to have some as well.
I thought they subdivided and sold Packard’s estate after his passing, I’m glad if that’s not true. I’m w/oddwick and would love to know what they do with the harvest.
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I don’t know who does the picking, but they have held charity events at the house. Not sure about a subdivision, but they recently added a public trail though the orchard, offering some new views for photography… =)
I really like the common terminus layer of these branching trees, like a field upon a field… or a cortical sheet
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One of my favourite morphological properties of trees and neurons is fractal dimension. It’s one of those things you read and understand and then a few weeks later you are looking at an object and you undergo a dramatic perceptual shift within a fraction of a second that you remember for the rest of your life.
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/cogsci/chaos/workshop/F...
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"I had lunch with Bill and Dave on my first day of work at HP. Gestures like that leave a lasting impression."
Wow! I can imagine. You must have been a very special hire. They didn’t do that for every local hire at the time, did they? I worked for HP for a few years in the very early 90s and somehow never heard legends of new-hire lunches with Bill and Dave. I did hear of their common practice of "management by walking around", surprise visits to beer busts and coffee talks. I was there right about the time the liability concerns were killing the regular beer busts. 🙁
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I suspect Chad that Steve had already carved out his future a long time before that first day at this particular job. Today, this is undeniable. Some people take a long time to shine for one reason (constraint/obstacle) or another and some others might have such great family support from their early childhood that their talents, brilliance and personalities constantly shine like beacons along with their hard work. Even if it may seem differently, I see a balance in this. Some beacons need to exist to lead the way. Life is always in balance.
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Spring has not really sprung in Montréal … 🙁 … All was still brown here but since a few hours, it is snowing in all of Québec !
From my point of view, it looks like our Québec snow fell on the tops of these beautiful apricot trees and is hovering there until the sun melts it away. A rather serene scene, in my opinion!
Steve, to complement the discussion, I searched for a photo I had never forgotten because it is one of the very first photos I had seen in Flickr the first day I became a member on August 15 2005. One of your own photos is also linked under this photo so I saw yours the same day as well.
Orchards versus homes, 50 years later from P. K.
Orchards in 1953 from S. J.
After searching for the first photo, I visited P. K.’s stream since I had not in many months. Mostly a coincidence…(there never are), while browsing, I found this which is most appropriate here.
Birthplace of Silicon Valley
William R. Hewlett and David Packard
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Hi, I’m an admin for a group called we love orchard, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
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